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I am unfamiliar with NC. Is this Cary? Only an insane person would move Down East, my home. It’s a hole, as my dear mother would say. Like the Bronx of North Carolina. I presently live in the Yankee colony of Wake County, in the Central part of the state.

He spoke it up like it was heaven on earth and he did live all his life in an upscale prime $ection of the NY suburbs.

[warchild9]

Most Yankees here go through what a radio commentator called the “Cycle”:

1. believe the propaganda (generated mostly by the real estate industry) that NC is heaven;
2. Move to NC and get a temp job or work retail;
3. learn that one cannot support a household on low wages;
4. run through life savings;
5. lose house and family;
6. move away;
7. the real estate industry profits for a second time;

You see these people in the Cycle around all the time, by the hundreds, working retail with their furrowed little brows, wondering what happened. It’s sad.